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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1629, 8 February 1886, Page 4

ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL. «, (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, Monday. Arrived^ — Mararoa, from 'Frisco. The Kotorua leaves this morning from Manakan, with southern mails. The Mararoa brings no Samoan news of any importance*. r ' . ■ " ' / The Times correspondent writing on January (ith says the French Government ■will at the request of the Panama Canal Company send Rousseau to inspect and report on the prospects of the work. ' If the report is favorable a loan will be granted to push the Canal to completion, if adverse the enterprise will be allowed to collapse. ; Much interest is excited m the English steel trade, by the placing of contracts; for 40,000 tons of rails by the Government of Victoria for railway construction. It is said the contract has been secured by Bristol & Sons,'; Australian merchants, Loodon and Wolyerhampton. ■_' A fight has taken place between a body of Russian troops and 6000 Shohsovals, who were crossing the Persian Frontier. Justin McCarthy, the Nationalist member of Parliament, has severed his connection with the Daily News. A disastrous cyclone passed over the Midland counties of England"On 13th Jann ary.j The railway station at Stratford-on Avon was destroyed and traffic on the rail stopped for* some time. A number • of. trains w,ere blown, over at Wednesbury and two persons were killed at that place. Reports. from all the districts traversed by the cyclone say that trees were uprooted , houses wrecked,. and, other damage sus- . tamed. The British barque Mabel foundered on January 4 m Bristol Channel with all aboard. The cold is so excessive m the Western States that many persons particularly m Nebraska have been frozen to death. At the opening of Parliament the most important notice posted on the i bulletin boards of the House was v motion to abolish vice-Royalty. It was .Asserted authbrtatively on the afternoon of the 14th chat the Government acting on the report of the legal advisers of the Crown had decided to take legal proceedings to oust Bradlatigbv , The main grounds of the proceedings is that Bradlaugh has declared that the oath m not binding on his conscience. The Times' correspondent telegraphs that 10,000 rebels are scouring the country! within a radius of 20 miles of Mandalay and they threaten to attack the palace. Fears are entertained owing to the, great reduction of the '] British forces at Mandafay. ' ' ' ■ l "* .. .'. The prosecuting counsel have dis covered some, startling evidence "V the now iambus Prellaruiurder case. A witness, a girl named Grace, will be brought froiji Hongkong. Her evidence iwill be startling. On the day Maxwell arrived m 'Frisco, while t^he two v were together m the evening, the girl had b'ccaaidh to go rdown stairs, and when she retured to the room .Maxwell waß holding ; a revolver with the muzzle pointed at the door. Thb girl screamed where.upon Maxwell Baidi* 1 Don't be afraid, I won't shopt you. Had it been a man I should have shot to kill,", ; ' •..-.' Anotber Serious Accident on I '. tne itlasterton lime. ■'' - ' " ' "'"• ."■./■-. ii.i -ir.i i A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. |(l EB ffNITBD PRESS ASSOCIATION.) \ Wellington, Monday V , 4 iAnotlier accidenTioccurred ,6b the' Wlel-I lington- Master ton Eailwav on Saturday afternoon; • A passenger train was being , passed up the steep incline on the Featherston side of the Bimiitaka and had iust passed through a tunnel -when the grappling apparatus of the .engine gave" way' arid the ' ; train began ; to* Vuri > down the hill.. The, brakes were applied and fortunately held the train, bringing | up m the tunnel. The lady passengers | became greatly excited, several fainting 1 anjrt screaming. Tli£ darkness adding to their fright, most of the passengers jumped out some sustaining slight injuries.^ If the tram, had moved after the passengers 'jumped / out some o2> r them ■ would hay been trusted to death*. l • * ' * According 1 to Mr Goodbehere's records I this total rainfal for January was 331 inches, of which 2*78 inches fell during the last 5 days of the month. Those who^want tp be buried 'cheaply should geti.inloi the Grey. Hospital. Undertaking there is done at 5d per head. The unsuccessful tenderer only asks 6d. From" 1840 to* 30th June l'ss4 2156' persons have been drowned m New Zealand Rivers. |A, CarDenter' employe'doja 2 t th'e^Gorge* "■"Bridge r works %ad two "6b his^ fingers. bajdly crushed m the monkey block. He was taken home to Feilding the same '.eyienine, where his injuries were attended tOi J r '< ■ ■■:■ .•-.! "■ ' ■ :...!' The heat to day was again intense, esfpejcially during the afternoon, causing vegetation to be tmu'(sl),b.upn.ed,up. v ..-W]e. again caution the public against the careless use of matches, as everything is m a highly inflammable condition. The chWrge ' of 'larceny of '500 sheep ; preferred "against James Ingley, of Mas terton, has been dismissed. .The foundations stone^ of St v Mary's ProtestaritsCa^hedral, Auckiarid, was laid on Saturday by the Primate, Bishop Harper. jThe bodies of Mrs TurnbuH and her two young children who were drowned m the 'ketch Ff.n/iyyKelly^ disaster, v haye been found near Whangarei Heads. 'We understand that negotiations are m progress for another firm of auo tioneers and Wtbek salesmen . establishing themselves m Palmeraton. i j Exposing the civil list of small debt j'caseson a window* outside the Court -' has been objected to down South, and tfje practice has now been disconI tinued. > „''.[' '"■. ..- ■The VictoFian Executive commuted to two years'imprisonment the dnath sentence passed on Mrs Sarah. Williams, ..who, it remembered^ threw her 'infa^ni into ; tb» Yarfa after a quarrel witb her drunken Ijuiband. " ' ' * The Tost aayß Mr Driver's engagement is terminable 1 at a month's notice on either side, :-.•■"•< Owintr to the incumbentot St. Thomas', | jAuckJand, ; indulging m very advanced; ritualistic. practices, there. ,gas, been a great .secession on the part of members lof the congregation. A Northern exchange says':— '•' .The' 'charge is now ih m sach' a state of disruption and contusion as to hold out but little hope of ■ any salutary improvemeut under the present incumbency." The incumbent of St. Thomas' was formerly Rev. Mr Keating, & one time of, AIJ Saints', Palmersip'fl North' , but riov of Oamaru. n ßroncliitis and Astlinja, Pr» *>rrcr' ftlT.orcJs immertiate relief. ppr Gonsnijjptlpn " ijaxtejr' Lipjg JPreserver has .b.eeri'sj(ffl a »r snc^essfijl >■■■■■. , In Crbnp'*Ba?;.t ( er'iiLung Pfeserypr, 'ppjerates lpagcally, its expiJct.orai).t »nd Qtl-ariproiw' " -xtfording y wJftf TOyLJS'S PBIJNYftOYAJi AJJ-p STEEL PILLS fQfy FSW^-tES quickly correct all irregularities UO4 rcljeye pli^e rlfstresajng symptoms so preyaljent with tJic sex. Sows Js li/i an,d 3s 94, .of all Chem--ists. Prcpnrert only hr 'B r^ r fovjsft, (3h,ei»ist; ifipttingham, England. Wholesale of ail the Wlipf^sajfl Houses. Beware of Imitations.